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When David's father is away, the poltergeist suddenly becomes active and again begins to wreak havoc in the house. The Stanleys' old house has an alleged past history of being inhabited by a destructive poltergeist, who caused rocks to fly through the house and beheaded a wooden cupid that is carved into the stairs. In contrast to Amanda's possibly staged "witchcraft", the Stanley children, particularly David and Blair, seem to have some actual psychic gifts, but do not talk about them. David, while skeptical, goes along with the idea in order to get along with Amanda and protect his younger siblings. She offers to share her occult knowledge with David and his younger siblings Janie, Tesser, and Blair. Amanda claims to be a practicing witch, and arrives at the Stanley home in a ceremonial costume, bringing books on the supernatural and a caged crow that she claims is her familiar. Amanda is upset about her mother's divorce and remarriage, and about being forced to move away from the city and her best friend there. After his university professor father remarries, eleven-year-old David Stanley must make a series of new adjustments: first to his new stepmother, then to the strange old house in the country to which the family relocates, and finally to his new stepsister, twelve-year-old Amanda.
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